Calcasieu Parish School Board Collection

Guide to the

Calcasieu Parish School Board Collection
1887 -

6.27 linear feet

 Collection Number 080

Prepared by Patricia A. Threatt
November 2003

CITATION:  Calcasieu Parish School Board Collection, Collection No. 080, Box number, Folder number, Archives and Special Collections Department, Frazar Memorial Library, McNeese State University.

 Archives and Special Collections Department

Frazar Memorial Library

McNeese State University


Historical Sketch

 In 1854, the Louisiana State Superintendent of Public Education to the General Assembly reported that 784 pupils were enrolled in the public schools of Calcasieu Parish.  Today the Calcasieu Parish School Board consists of over 30,000 students in 59 schools.

Scope and Content Note

 The collection contains photographs of school buildings and a cheerleader skirt from Hamilton Elementary School. It also contains two ledgers with the handwritten minutes of the school board from 1887-1911.


Container List 

Box

Folder

Description

1

1

Photographs of Lake Charles schools:
LaGrange Senior H.S.
Oak Park E.S.
Oak Park J.H.S.
Prien Lake E.S.
A. A.Nelson E.S.
T.H.Watkins E.S.
F.K.White J.H.S.
Westwood E.S.
Westlake H.S.(Primary Bldg.)
Westlake H.S.(Elem. Bldg.)
Western Heights E.S.
S.J.Welsh J.H.S

 

2

Photographs of Lake Charles schools:
Greenwich Village E.S.
Marion E.S.
Barbe E.S.
Brentwood E.S.
College Oaks E.S.
Cooley E.S.
Dolby E.S.
Eastwood E.S.
Fairview E.S.
Henry Heights E.S.
M.J.Kaufman E.S.
LaGrange H.S.

LaGrange J.H.S.

 

3

Photographs of Sulphur schools:
Maplewood J.H.S.(Elem. Bldg.)
Frasch E.S.
W.T.Hennings E.S.
Sulphur H.S.
E.K.Key E.S.
W.W.Lewis J.H.S.
N.Crocker E.S.
D.S.Perkins E.S.
Vincent E.S.

 

4

Photographs of other Calcasieu Parish schools:
Melrose E.S.
Rosteet J.H.S.
Rosteet E.S.(Primary Bldg)
Rosteet E.S.(Upper Bldg)
Hayes E.S.
Bell City H.S.
DeQuincy H.S.
DeQuincy E.S.
Gillis H.S.
Iowa H.S.(Primary Bldg)
Iowa H.S. (Elem. Bldg)
Iowa H.S.
Moss Bluff E.S.
Starks H.S.
Vinton H.S.

 

5

Unidentified photographs; Sulphur school faculty photograph

2

 

Red cheerleader skirt, bloomers, and cummerbund from Hamilton Elementary School, ca. 1965.

3

 

Ledger containing minutes of the school board from 1887-1901

4

 

Ledger containing minutes of the school board from 1901-1911


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